Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [pron] is " in BNC.
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| 1 | The media gives most of its attention to the pros which is fair enough . |
| 2 | Under the Acts it is a criminal offence for a dealer to offer or agree to give an inducement or reward to another for abstaining or having abstained from bidding . |
| 3 | Between those two lines of the accounts there is virtually nothing but disaster . |
| 4 | Er we have looked to supplement national e information by our local knowledge specifically I might instance one er where we have made a survey of the institutions which is one source of er possible difference between er people looking at the situation locally and those from further afield . |
| 5 | Below the sandstones there is a thick sequence of tuffs and lavas , already referred to and believed to be Lower Permian . |
| 6 | Unemployment on the estates themselves is much higher than the average for the surrounding areas . |
| 7 | And the investigations she is proposing to undertake are eccentric even by the standards of visiting academics . |
| 8 | Nobody knows the true measure of that inflation , but in the cities it is something in the region of 15–20% a year , and rising . |
| 9 | The principal voice of Amalgamemnon is Mira Enketei , a university lecturer in the humanities who is on the verge of being made redundant due to the seeming irrelevance of her field in present-day society . |
| 10 | In the humanities there is no decline in interest in traditional printed sources , but there is also a demand for access to new kinds of resources . |
| 11 | ( People are now inviting me to play in all manner of matches to boost the takings which is one way of getting a game as wicky ) . |
| 12 | To reform an unconscionable decision of the courts which is unworkable in practice ; Parliament may pass an Act which has the effect of overruling the courts ' decision . |
| 13 | So you need to make sure you know about all the debts which is why if you ever read the papers some Never understand why people read the public notices columns but they are read and you see notice about so and so who 's died . |
| 14 | One way is to check whether a consultancy has its own guidelines , aims and objectives for the audits it is offering . |
| 15 | Please could you let me know if the old mill chimney in the grounds of one of the houses there is a listed building and if it is not what is the correct procedure for having it listed . |
| 16 | Indeed , it is the disinterested character of the reactions which is the criterion for being aware from other people 's viewpoints . |
| 17 | In order to classify the pixels it is necessary to know in advance the number and spectral characteristics of the land-cover classes that are present in the area covered by the image . |
| 18 | A lot of the times what is really happening is that people are being put into artificial jobs . |
| 19 | The Gofer concept provides good mobile flexible staff help , just for the times it is needed . |
| 20 | In half the cases there is no history of a primary lesion at all . |
| 21 | Throughout the cases it is possible to discern two distinct approaches to construction . |
| 22 | Hughes cites Speak as a model for those yet to get their chance in the game , insisting : ‘ The rewards he is getting now are richly deserved . |
| 23 | ‘ He plays for a mixed side in his spare time and is well up with the rules which is pretty useful because they seem to change every couple of months . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ The artistic heritage of Rome and Lazio is so vast and imposing that we distribute the work between us , even if according to the rules it is the Soprintendenza for Architectural Monuments which should deal with mural painting ’ . |
| 25 | AT&T 's NCR Federal Systems Division is upgrading some of the products it is supplying as part of US government contracts : it has added the AT&T StarStation 386 DX PC to its $800 million , eight-year Office Automation Technology and Services ( OATS ) contract with the the Federal Aviation Administration ( FAA ) which it won back in in 1989 — 12,500 Intel 80386-based personal computers and 2,500 laptops have been shipped so far — and has upgraded computers supplied under the 1988 , $1bn Standard Multi-user Small Computer Requirements Contract to run Unix SVR4 . |
| 26 | By analysing the products he is selling in this way , a salesman will communicate in terms which are meaningful to buyers and therefore be more convincing . |
| 27 | Therefore , the art of good listening is perceptive , involving a degree of interpretation of what is being said , the reasons it is being said , and how what is being said relates to the realities of the situation . |
| 28 | Although emotionally loaded , the work does not have , as Bamert acknowledges , the direct appeal of earlier requiems , which may be one of the reasons it is seldom heard . |
| 29 | Although I rate El Tel very highly I think one of the reasons he is being picked is that no money will have to change hands . |
| 30 | One is to be systematic from the point of view of the skills it is aimed to develop through this kind of work , which involves a close definition of the skills necessary to complete a project satisfactorily , and then to structure the work to include the practice and development of these skills . |